07-06-2004, 06:56 PM
Myself, me girlfriend, and her brother decided to take a late morning run up to Rock Creek on Sunday just to see if the fish were biting.
We started just below the Stillwater dam and worked down about a half mile. We all caught fish, but the biggest was about 8". I had a Mepps Aglia in silver with orange bead and willow leaf blade. Brian was fishing a silver Mepps Aglia with a red bead and a colorado blade. Mindy was fishing just a worm on a hook, no weight.
We decided to have lunch at the lodge. Tasty burgers!! They have also put up cabins for those of you that haven't been up in a while. Very reasonable prices too.
We headed down about a mile below the lodge and hit the stream again. We were all catching a lot of fish. I might have been able to stretch one of them to 13". The average was around 10". I caught quite a few 12" in this place. All around, we caught about 20-25 fish each at this spot. There were flies all over the water and the fish were surfacing everywhere. It didn't seem to matter what we put on. They were hitting everything. I did the best with a #5 Rainbow Rapala floater. There were some casts where I would have one get off and another pick it up on the spot. This is just downstream of the miners gultch pull out. There is a large beaver pond holding what seemed like a couple hundred fish. We saw larger fish coming off the bottom to look, but turning away before hitting. Anything that saw us, didn't hit either, so be sneaky.
Mindy got bored with the little fish, so we decided to try the big pond. The owner at the lodge let us know that a guest had caught 3 Browns over 20" in there during the weekend. We only caught three Rainbows. Two on a bubble and worm, and one on Zekes Corn floating 2.5 feet up from the bottom. Fish were surfacing everywhere for the masses of flies there too. I'd bet a fisher in a float tube in the early morning would have the best chance of a big Brown. A 12lb. Brown came out of there last fall. The lady said that she was fishing a worm under a bubble with a salmon egg over by the bubble up. That's all I could get.
For the entire day, I caught over 40 fish, the largest might have been 13". Brian caught about the same. Mindy didn't catch as many with worms as we did with spinners and other lures. She probably caught about 30.
We were fishing for dinner, so we wanted a few 15+ inchers. Since we didn't catch any of those, we tried to release everything else, but a few had taken the worm too deep and had to be kept.
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We started just below the Stillwater dam and worked down about a half mile. We all caught fish, but the biggest was about 8". I had a Mepps Aglia in silver with orange bead and willow leaf blade. Brian was fishing a silver Mepps Aglia with a red bead and a colorado blade. Mindy was fishing just a worm on a hook, no weight.
We decided to have lunch at the lodge. Tasty burgers!! They have also put up cabins for those of you that haven't been up in a while. Very reasonable prices too.
We headed down about a mile below the lodge and hit the stream again. We were all catching a lot of fish. I might have been able to stretch one of them to 13". The average was around 10". I caught quite a few 12" in this place. All around, we caught about 20-25 fish each at this spot. There were flies all over the water and the fish were surfacing everywhere. It didn't seem to matter what we put on. They were hitting everything. I did the best with a #5 Rainbow Rapala floater. There were some casts where I would have one get off and another pick it up on the spot. This is just downstream of the miners gultch pull out. There is a large beaver pond holding what seemed like a couple hundred fish. We saw larger fish coming off the bottom to look, but turning away before hitting. Anything that saw us, didn't hit either, so be sneaky.
Mindy got bored with the little fish, so we decided to try the big pond. The owner at the lodge let us know that a guest had caught 3 Browns over 20" in there during the weekend. We only caught three Rainbows. Two on a bubble and worm, and one on Zekes Corn floating 2.5 feet up from the bottom. Fish were surfacing everywhere for the masses of flies there too. I'd bet a fisher in a float tube in the early morning would have the best chance of a big Brown. A 12lb. Brown came out of there last fall. The lady said that she was fishing a worm under a bubble with a salmon egg over by the bubble up. That's all I could get.
For the entire day, I caught over 40 fish, the largest might have been 13". Brian caught about the same. Mindy didn't catch as many with worms as we did with spinners and other lures. She probably caught about 30.
We were fishing for dinner, so we wanted a few 15+ inchers. Since we didn't catch any of those, we tried to release everything else, but a few had taken the worm too deep and had to be kept.
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